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COMpetence and TALent
assessment in SME’s
MANUAL
ComTal TOOL
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission under the Lifelong Learning Programme. This publication reflects the
views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.
Intro............................................................................................................................................................ 4
2.
The tool ...................................................................................................................................................... 5
3.
4.
2.1
Initial situation ................................................................................................................................... 5
2.2
Measuring competencies with Comet: the concept .......................................................................... 5
How to use Comet as a user – Manual users ............................................................................................. 7
3.1
Login ................................................................................................................................................... 7
3.2
Assessment ........................................................................................................................................ 7
3.3
Report ................................................................................................................................................ 8
3.3.1
Directly after completion ........................................................................................................... 8
3.3.2
On a later time ........................................................................................................................... 9
How to manage Comet as an admin – Manual administrators ............................................................... 10
4.1
Login ................................................................................................................................................. 10
4.2
Competence profile(s) ..................................................................................................................... 10
4.3
Create user groups ........................................................................................................................... 10
4.4
Create users ..................................................................................................................................... 11
4.4.1
Step 1: Create a user login ....................................................................................................... 11
4.4.2
Step 2: Link user to the questionnaire ..................................................................................... 13
4.4.3
User template .......................................................................................................................... 15
4.5
Give users access to the questionnaire ........................................................................................... 15
4.5.1
Via login.................................................................................................................................... 15
4.5.2
Via e-mail ................................................................................................................................. 15
4.6
Creating reports ............................................................................................................................... 17
4.6.1
Automatic report download .................................................................................................... 17
4.6.2
Draft reports as an admin ........................................................................................................ 17
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4.6.2.1
Personal reports ................................................................................................................... 18
4.6.2.2
Team reports ........................................................................................................................ 19
4.7
Checklists ......................................................................................................................................... 20
4.8
Standards ......................................................................................................................................... 21
4.9
Additional functionalities ................................................................................................................. 21
4.9.1
5.
Intro and end-text .................................................................................................................... 21
ComTal Project Partners .......................................................................................................................... 22
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1. Intro
In the current period of dynamic economic development and a great number of diverse companies
in operation, it seems important to define the characteristics of an entrepreneur that enable him
or her not only to survive, but also to develop and become successful.
Competences are the subject of research within several domains of social science: psychology,
management, law, sociology and organisational theory. The competences associated with
company management can be defined as those characteristics which favour the successful
management of a small and medium company. Both types of competences – general and specific are personal characteristics, which are possible to change and modify, for example through
training. They can reach different levels for different people and also for the same employee in
different moments in time.
Nowadays it seems that new challenge is not only the competence management but also the
talent management. Talent has become the key factor of production and regions develop
advantages based on their ability to quickly mobilize the best people, resources, and capabilities
required to turn innovations into new business ideas and commercial products. Qualities and
ambitions as motor for the future.
The ComTal project – Competence and Talent assessment in SME’s – coordinated by OIC Poland
Foundation and with project partners Business West (UK), University of Exeter (UK), Eurosuccess
Consulting (CY), RPIC-ViP (CZ) and Syntra West (BE) tries to meet these new expectations.
The project partners developed two competence profiles within this project, one profile for a
coach and one competence and talent profile for SME employees that work in team. How these
profiles have been determined can be found in the respective papers, published on the project
website www.comtalproject.eu.
To be able to assess these competences and to screen the different employees the project
partnership also developed an assessment method. Using the Comet software, a licensed product
of project partner Syntra West, the partnership developed an online assessment to evaluate either
the competences of a coach or the competences and talent of a team employee. The evaluation
results are presented in a competence report.
This manual is intended for administrators working with the tool to guide them through and
provides an overview of all functionalities and settings of the tool.
If you wish to take the assessment, please contact your national project partner for further information.
The project partners are listed at the end of this manual.
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2. The tool
2.1
Initial situation
In the context of the ComTal-project, different environments have been created in Comet
(Competence Measurement Tool); one per country per profile:
 ComTal Coach Europe
 ComTal Team Europe
 ComTal Coach GB
 ComTal Team GB
 ComTal Coach Poland
 ComTal Team Poland
 ComTal Coach Czech
 ComTal Team Czech
 ComTal Coach Cyprus
 ComTal Team Cyprus
 ComTal Coach Belgium
 ComTal Team Belgium
In a preparatory phase, each of these environments have been made ready to use:
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The competence dictionaries + tool buttons have been translated into the proper
languages
The competence profiles have been uploaded in the tool
User groups and some test-users have been created per environment
2.2
Measuring competencies with Comet: the concept
In the whole process of assessing competences, a number of logic steps are taken. The 4 basic
steps are defined below.
Creating a profile
 Defining which competences and
statements should be in the profile.
Making a standard for a profile
 To what extent each competence
should be present.
Making an evaluation
 Assessing someone according to a
certain profile.
Analysing the results
 Comparing the evaluation with the
defined standard (individual or team).
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In the context of ComTal, these steps have been given a specific interpretation:
1) Profile: 2 profiles have been uploaded
a. ComTal Coach
b. ComTal Team
2) Standard: the norms have been set, in sten scores, per country and per competence based
on the statistical analysis after the standardization phase.
3) Evaluation: the tool can be used as a self-assessment
4) Results: All results are accumulated in one ComTal report. This Word-report includes text
and different graphics.
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3. How to use Comet as a user – Manual users
3.1
Login
Option 1: Surf to www.cometplus.be and enter the received login information
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Enterprise: ComTal Coach Europe/GB/Poland/Czech/Cyprus/Belgium or ComTal Team
Europe/GB/Poland/Czech/Cyprus/Belgium
User: enter the username you were given
Password: enter the password you were given
Option 2: Click on the link you received via e-mail. You will automatically enter the tool.
3.2
Assessment
Once logged in, you are directed to the assessment and will see this screen:
To start the assessment click on “Questionnaires” and then on “New” (this is also explained in the
welcome text).
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Complete the assessment through answering all statements by selecting the radio buttons. At the
end of each page click “Next”. At the final page click “Finish questionnaire”.
If you completed your questionnaire and everything was saved correctly, an end-message will
appear and you will be able to automatically download your personal competence CV.
If you forgot to complete a certain question, the tool will divert you directly to the page where you
missed the statement.
3.3
Report
Once you completed the questionnaire, you can draw your own personal competence report from
the tool. This report will give you more information on your competences.
3.3.1
Directly after completion
Once you finish the questionnaire you will see the end message “Thank you for completing this
questionnaire…”, by clicking the “Download report” button you will immediately receive your
personal competence report.
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3.3.2
On a later time
Login again with the user account you were given. Click on “Reports” in the menu.
Select the following criteria:
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Type report: Composite with Word report
User: Select your own name/login
Answers: Select the latest date
Check “compare with norm”
Click on “Export report”
Your competence report will appear which you can save on your computer.
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4. How to manage Comet as an admin – Manual administrators
4.1
Login
To login as an administrator surf to http://www.cometplus.be
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Enterprise: ComTal Coach Europe/GB/Poland/Czech/Cyprus/Belgium or ComTal Team
Europe/GB/Poland/Czech/Cyprus/Belgium
User: X
Password: X
4.2
Competence profile(s)
One competence profile has been created per environment. A Coach profile in ‘ComTal Coach’ and
a teamworking profile in ‘ComTal Team’.
This means that users can only complete this (whole) questionnaire. Due to the settings in the
ComTal environment (standards, report…) you can only use the whole profile and not create your
own (partial) profile. So whatever you do, do not delete or change the original competence
profile!
4.3
Create user groups
A user group is a group of users that share the same rights in the tool (e.g. the authorisation to
look at certain reports).
In the ComTal environments two user groups were created:
1. Administrator: has all the rights (e.g. to create users, to give them certain rights, to look at
results about all users…)
2. Users: can only fill out questionnaires and look at their report
If you open one of the user groups, you can see all their rights, e.g. users (the rights of the
administrator should not be changed):
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For the correct working of the tool in the context of this project, it is advisable not to change the rights that
are marked blue.
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If you click on “extra”, you see the text that will appear after a user belonging to that user group
fills out a questionnaire. You can change the text or translate it
Now users have access to reports. If you want to change that, check off the boxes “access reports”
Now the users have access to the menu, which gives them also the right to change their password.
If you don’t want users to do that, check off the box “access menu”
Save your adjustments
These are the rights that were created in preparation of the meeting. It is possible to change those
rights in your own environment. Just keep in mind that changing certain settings may have other
implications (e.g. if you don’t allow users to look at reports, they will not be able to automatically
download their report after completing the questionnaire).
You can create additional user groups if this makes it easier to classify certain groups of people,
companies…
4.4
Create users
4.4.1
Step 1: Create a user login
In the ComTal environments some testusers were created. Logged in as the administrator, click on
“users”. You will see the users:
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If you click on one of them, you can see all their rights, e.g. testuser (the rights of the
administrator should not be changed):
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Login: name to use to login on the access page
Last name + first name
Password: … (administrators can only reset passwords, not retrieve them)
E-mail: necessary if you want to invite people via e-mail to fill out their questionnaire
Language: only the language of your environment is shown
User group: link to the user group (administrator or users)
User can change password: for now all users have the right to change their password
Start + end date user: start date=creation date of the user; end date=depends on how much time
you give the people to complete the questionnaire
Department: link to the right department (in the context of this project: only one department,
namely the same name of the environment itself)
Image: here you can upload a photo
Access reports + menu: if you want the rights of that specific user to deviate from the rights of his
user group
Save your adjustments
If you wish to create a new user go to “Users” and click on “New user” and define all settings.
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4.4.2
Step 2: Link user to the questionnaire
In this project one questionnaire was created per environment, namely “ComTal Coach” or
“ComTal Team”.
Click on “Questionnaire” and then on “ComTal…”.
You get an overview of all the items of the questionnaire, until the level of statements:
For a correct way of working in the tool, we strongly advise you not to change anything. Therefore, do not
use the buttons marked in blue.
Users have to be linked to questionnaires. To create those links, click on “Questionnaire” again,
and then in the white box before the name of the questionnaire:
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You will get an overview of all the users of your environment and two tabs; “allow answers” +
“view results”.
To create the links, click on the white box next to the user and check the right users in both tabs.
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“allow answer”: as this is a self-assessment, the user is allowed to answer a questionnaire about
himself, so check the box before his/her name
“view results”: the user is allowed to see his own personal report, so check again the box before
his/her name
The checked boxes automatically ‘jump’ to the top of the list and are automatically saved.
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4.4.3
User template
The description above is how to create users manually.
If you have a long list of users it might be easier to use the excel-template to upload all users and
settings at once. You can complete the template and send it to Syntra West for upload.
4.5
Give users access to the questionnaire
There are two possible ways to complete a questionnaire in Comet: by login or by e-mail.
4.5.1
Via login
All the preparation is already done via the user management; users were created (with their logins
and passwords), they were linked to the right questionnaire and authorisations were created
about who completes the questionnaires about who (cfr 3.4).
The only thing to do is to give the users their personal login and password.
4.5.2
Via e-mail
If you want to invite people to complete a questionnaire by e-mail, you have to take two steps:
1) Create a mail template
2) Send out a specific selection of e-mails
Click on “Mail templates” and then on “New mail template”:
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Code: type a code, e.g. SA
From: type your own e-mail address
Fill own list: check this box in case of self-assessment (check this box for ComTal)
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Language: automatically the language of your own environment
Description: type some comment (for yourself)
Subject: =the subject of the e-mail
Mail content: type your own text and use some links if you want. Always select “link to
questionnaire”
Save changes
Now you can see your own mail template if you click on “Mail templates”. To send out e-mails,
click on the little envelope on the right of the screen:
You get an overview of the possible mails to send:
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Mail template: is filled out automatically
From: is filled automatically
Autologin: check this box if you want to give people directly access to the questionnaire (no login)
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Questionnaire: there is only one possibility (ComTal…)
Levels: there is only one level, the name of the environment
Users: the tool will show you the possibilities, the already created users. You need to select the
questionnaires you want to send out (ctrl or shift) and then finally click on “send mail”
If you notice after a while that some people did not complete the questionnaire yet, you can send
them a reminder.
Therefore, you have to select the user that had to fill out the questionnaire. Go to “users” and
select the right user. Then go to the tab “Mailhistory”, here you can see the mails that were sent
earlier. Click on the green button to resend a specific mail.
Be aware of the difference between:
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Resend a mail via “Mailtemplates”: the user will have to fill out a blanco questionnaire (like the first
time) and start from scratch.
Resend a mail via “Mailhistory”: the user will be able to start from his last saved version of the
questionnaire.
4.6
Creating reports
4.6.1 Automatic report download
Once the users finish the questionnaire, they will see the end message directing them to click on the
“Download report” button. So they can open their own personal Competence Report immediately.
4.6.2 Draft reports as an admin
The results of a completed questionnaire are available in different graphs:
 Radar chart
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Sten
Sten with gap
Column chart
Word Competence CV
4.6.2.1
Personal reports
Click on “Reports” in the menu:
For the correct way of working of the tool it is advisable to use the check boxes that are marked in
blue.
Type report: choose one of the possible graphs
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From – to: select From – to: select the right dates (“to” is today, “from” is 1 year earlier)
Questionnaire: only one possibility
User: select the user whose report you want to see
Answers: select the right date (when this specific person completed the questionnaire)
Choose “multi level selection”
Level: competence (in case of ComTal you can only use “competence” as the whole STen-scoring
system is calculated on a competence level)
Check “Compare with norm”
Click on “Show report”. Once the report is shown you can also export this report to pdf and/or
excel and save it on your computer.
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4.6.2.2
Team reports
In ComTal Team it might be useful to also be able to create an overview report of a team. You can
create a graphic report of several users by selecting the following options in the Report menu:
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Type report: choose one of the possible graphs (radar chart)
From – to: select the right dates (“to” is today, “from” is 1 year earlier)
Questionnaire: only one possibility
Select “Multiple users” (and not “user”)
Click on the green plus symbol next to the white field
Click on ComTal Team
You will know see a list of users who already completed the questionnaire
Select the users
Click on “add selected”
Choose “multi level selection”
Level: Competence (in case of ComTal you can only use “competence” as the whole STen-scoring
system is calculated on a competence level)
Check or do not check “Compare with norm”, depending on whether you want a line with the
standard included in the report or not.
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4.7
Checklists
To follow the status of the (in)completed questionnaires, you can click on “Checklists –
Completion” in the menu:
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From – to: select the right dates (to see the results of today, select until tomorrow)
Feedback by – feedback of: no difference in case of self-assessment
You can refine your selection by selecting a specific user
Questionlist: only 1 possibility here, leave blank
Click on “Show list” (you can also click on this button immediately to get an overall picture).
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4.8
Standards
For ComTal the norms have been set during the standardisation phase after statistical analysis, so
this cannot be changed.
4.9
Additional functionalities
4.9.1
Intro and end-text
An introduction text has been added to the tool to direct the user to the right buttons in the menu
to start the questionnaire.
An end message has also been included in the tool to direct the user to download his personal
report.
If you would like to change these texts, log in as an admin, go to “Languages” and click on
“Enterprise messages”. You can alter the texts here, do not forget to save them afterwards.
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5. ComTal Project Partners
ul.Gospodarcza 26
20-213 Lublin, Polska
tel.+48 81 710 46 30
[email protected]
www.oic.lublin.pl
56 Stavrou Av., Karyatides Business
Center, Block A2 - Office 205
2035, Nicosia, CYPRUS
www.eurosc.euu
Výstavní 2224/8
70900, Ostrava, Czech Republic
www.rpic-vip.cz
Spoorwegstraat 14
8200 Brugge, Belgium
www.syntrawest.be
The Innovation Centre,
University of Exeter
EX4 4RN Exeter, United Kingdom
www.exeter.ac.uk
Leigh Court Business Centre,
Abbots Leigh
BS83RA Bristol, United Kingdom
www.businesswest.co.uk